Like many other readers, I received this book as a free Kobo promo. Pleasant enough short (very short) story. Nicely written, but felt like the beginning of a larger story that the author decided to abandon. It would make for a good piece to analyze in high school English - it's full of referenc...
Oh god, this is the third crap book in a row. Life's too bloody short for this!!!!!!!!! I so wanted to like this. It's not often that a South-East Asian writer (Tash Aw is of Malaysian origin) gets international recognition. But this is utter crap. To be honest, I didn't finish it. I gave up at a...
ANTICIPATE DANGER IN TIMES OF PEACE THE MEETING DID NOT LAST AS LONG AS YINGHUI HAD EXPECTED. The banker was Singaporean, a woman a couple of years younger than Yinghui who, it turned out, had been at university at the same time as she (they vaguely remembered each other from the Malaysian and Si...